You certainly are a gloomy bunch. In reviewing Foreign Policy's most popular articles from 2009, we found that our readership possesses a fairly dark sensibility: Your favorite photo essays included an inside look at the impoverished lives of North Koreans, images from the world's most fragile states, and photographs detailing the lives of people inhabiting some of the planet's largest slums. For our feature articles, you enjoyed the 2009 Failed States Index and reading about how a new plague could kill us all. Even two of our most popular lists tackled the ways that the world could end, and the world's real death panels -- Sarah Palin's protestations about health care notwithstanding.
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In your defense, your tastes do not run entirely toward doom and gloom. You also were fans of the photos detailing the budding romance between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev, and FP's Top 100 Global Thinkers list. Nevertheless, here's hoping sunnier topics make a comeback in 2010. Without further ado, here are Foreign Policy's most popular photo essays, articles, and lists of 2009.
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Photo Essays
Tomas van Houtryve entered North Korea posing as a businessman looking to open a chocolate factory. While there, he captured these images of everyday life in the world’s last gulag.
2. The Least Free Places on Earth
Freedom House compiled these slices of life from the bottom 21 countries and territories from its Freedom in the World report.
How, and why Japan, Norway, and Iceland ignore the international ban on whaling.
Images from some of the world's most fragile states.
How Russia's ruling tandem works, and plays, together.
6. Planet Slum
A look inside the homes of the people who inhabit the slums of Nairobi, Caracas, Mumbai, and Jakarta.
7. The Cars That Are Killing GM
Here are some of the cars that explain why General Motors is on life support.
8. Seeing Red
A visual history of Communist Russia's early days.
9. Bolivia's Lithium-Powered Future
What the global battery boom means for the future of South America's poorest country.
10. Gay Pride, from Zagreb to Shanghai
The gay rights movement takes its call for equal rights to the east.
A decade of photographs, exploring the impact of oil on our planet.
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